I have a sitemap.xml on one of my domains. It contains the following:
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>http://www.domain.com</loc>
<lastmod>[date in 2013]</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.domain.com/blog</loc>
<lastmod>[date in 2013]</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.domain.com/blog/blog-post-title-1/</loc>
<lastmod>[date in 2013]</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.domain.com/blog/blog-post-title-2/</loc>
<lastmod>[date in 2013]</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
Google in caching http://www.example.com
perfectly but for some reason, it doesn't seem to be caching /blog
very well. I would expect that the /blog
would appear in the same search results that the search phrase for domain.com
does - but it doesn't. It doesn't appear anywhere near the first couple pages for that search phrase (the search phrase is my personal name and it's a unique name so there's not much competition).
When I search "firstname lastname blog" - it comes up, but when I search "firstname lastname" only domain.com
comes up.
Am I correct in thinking that something might be wrong with my sitemap.xml? I suspect that Google is not correctly caching /blog
for some reason.
domain.com/blog
URL in search results? Can you you also clarify what you mean by this:When I search "firstname lastname blog" - it comes up, but when I search "firstname lastname" only domain.com comes up.